Date Archives January 2012

A Familiar but Foreign Game Decoded: My Search for Finnish Baseball or Pesäpallo

By Philip DiDio European vacations inspire dreams of cathedrals, museums, Mediterranean beaches, speedy train rides arriving on schedules defined by 24 hour clocks. It’s the Europe of the Mission Impossible and Bourne movie cycles. My Europe evokes a trip upstate to Lake Country; A summer camp with battered rowboats, fat-tired bicycles and family cookouts. Summer in Finland has the charm of an escape to nature,…

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